It's actually a statue of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy, 'Pride & Prejudice' was filmed there too. Personally, I think the statue of Lister peeing was more tasteful (I mean look at his face, just look at his face!! Brrr.)

Just a couple more (clearly I've had too much time on my hands this week!). Following on from the last post, here is the lake from Pride and Prejudice World (sorry, couldn't get a Streetview image - it's Hawley Lake near Farnborough).

And here is Sunbury Pumphouse - location for the Justice Zone and also scenes in 'The Inquisitor' and 'Quarantine'.

This is an interesting thread, and it makes me wonder why we've never had a discussion like this on the board before (or if we have I've forgotten it). It's disappointing to find that quite a few of these places now no longer exist. They're a little piece of real-world Red Dwarf history that's now been lost forever. I even felt a bit of disappointment to find that They Walk Among Us has been renamed.

Although it appears in Red Dwarf for only a few seconds, City Tower in Manchester city centre is at least one place that is still in existence. Having seen the building a number of times in real life I recognised it when watching Backwards way back in the 1990s (during the scene where Rimmer and Kryten are wandering around the city). Here's how it appears in the episode (filmed in 1989

I find street view too difficult to navigate on this computer, so here's how it looks today in an image I found on Google:

Great to see the Laredo pics, I tried to find that on Streetview but it only came up as a couple of buildings in the distance (not a surprise really, I guess the whole idea was to get as far away from the modern world as possible).

And good call on the Manchester pics Bluey. I've found the Streetview image for the backwards traffic further down the street here.

I've just noticed something really interesting (well it was interesting to me!). I'd been trying to find the first backwards traffic street and been struggling to get a fit, then I realised that, of course, they flipped the shot here and everything's back to front. So it's this street. But they didn't do that for the other traffic scene - everything's clearly the right way round. Does this mean that there's possibly a ...mistake... in 'Backwards'??

Great to see the Laredo pics, I tried to find that on Streetview but it only came up as a couple of buildings in the distance (not a surprise really, I guess the whole idea was to get as far away from the modern world as possible).

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Yeah I first looked on Streetview, I was hoping we'd be able to take a virtual walk through it but alas that was just wishful thinking, so I thought it worth linking to some official pics instead.

I've just noticed something really interesting (well it was interesting to me!). I'd been trying to find the first backwards traffic street and been struggling to get a fit, then I realised that, of course, they flipped the shot here and everything's back to front. So it's this street. But they didn't do that for the other traffic scene - everything's clearly the right way round. Does this mean that there's possibly a ...mistake... in 'Backwards'??

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A mistake in 'Backwards'!? Perish the thought! The episode is pure perfection and totally free from mistakes and continuity errors!

Well done on finding the traffic shot location on Aytourn Street, Callisto. I was trying to find the location of that shot myself, but as I said above, my computer doesn't tend to get along with Google Maps so I gave up pretty quickly. I had a feeling that it would be somewhere near to the City Tower, and I see now that it was very close indeed. In fact, the screenshot I posted above must have been filmed either from the same street or from the adjoining one.

Rewatching the footage from Backwards, you can see that so much has changed in the twenty-seven years since the episode was filmed, but the street is still very recognisable. Actually, the main thing that strikes me is how old-fashioned the cars look in Backwards. It's amazing how different vehicles look nowadays - apart from the black cabs, which look exactly the same as the ones in the episode.

Rewatching the footage from Backwards, you can see that so much has changed in the twenty-seven years since the episode was filmed, but the street is still very recognisable. Actually, the main thing that strikes me is how old-fashioned the cars look in Backwards. It's amazing how different vehicles look nowadays - apart from the black cabs, which look exactly the same as the ones in the episode.

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In some ways 1989 seems like yesterday - so brightly-coloured in my memory, but in film footage everyone and everything looks drab! I do love those old Manchester buses though. I suppose the most striking change is the introduction of the tram lanes, I've not been in the city centre for about 20 years so I've never seen them.

OK, there's another scene in 'Backwards' which is puzzling me - the scene where Lister comes out of the lake (and all the others in the woods around it). On this very site there is an interview with Mike Agnew, in which he says the following:

"Craig, of course, had to do a backwards-walk into the lake, because he had to be dry when he came out. We filmed that at Lime Park Lake in Liverpool - we shot quite a lot in this one big park."

I've looked and there is no Lime Park in Liverpool. There's Sefton Park and Newsham Park but none of their lakes look big enough. I thought he perhaps was getting confused with Lyme Park in Cheshire where they filmed parts of 'Timeslides', but the interviews on the series III documentary suggest that it was definitely in Liverpool (the part where it tells how Craig and Danny took one of the hire cars and drove round the city). Can anyone else solve this mystery?